A Cardi B concert scheduled for Indianapolis Tuesday night was called off less than an hour before showtime, with the performer and her management citing a “security threat” as the reason.

“Dear Indiana people, I’m so sorry for today,” she tweeted later in the evening, two hours after the ticketed showtime. “I will like to let you know I was at the venue. I was even rehearsing a new move I been excited to do on my show. Unfortunately there was a security threat that is currently under investigation right now. My safety and your safety first.”

Earlier, the Indianapolis Police Department emphasized in their own statement that the threat was “unverified” and there was no known cause for alarm. “This evening, there was a scheduled concert at Bankers Life,” the department said in a tweet. “We were notified of an unverified threat to the artist and the artist canceled this evening’s concert — there is no immediate threat to public safety, this not an active incident. Ongoing investigation.”

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The Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis sent out a tweet shortly before the ticketed 7 p.m. starting time, saying, “Tonight’s Cardi B show will not be played as scheduled. Rescheduled date is September 11. All tickets for the original date will be honored. Additional details will follow.”

Some disappointed ticketholders scoffed at the reason given and angrily took to social media with speculative reasons for the postponement. Some even imagined that, because Cardi B had tweeted earlier in the day in support of Bernie Sanders, she had chosen the televised debate over the gig.

“Due to a security threat and safety concerns at this evening’s show, management has advised that this show be postponed,” said a spokesperson for Cardi B’s record label, Atlantic. “These threats are currently under investigation.”

Local reports indicated that the performer was on-site and had done a sound check before the show was called off.

The Indiana show was to be the fifth of sixth arena shows she is doing on a mini-tour, amid festival dates. The last show of the brief run is scheduled for Wednesday night in Charlottesville, Virginia.

With performances from rising Spanish star Rosalía, Chilean singer Mon Laferte, regional Mexican titans Tucanes de Tijuana and one later today from Puerto Rican trap star Bad Bunny, Latin music has had its biggest-ever presence on the Coachella stages this year.

But Colombian superstar J Balvin — who joined Beyoncé onstage last year during her iconic headlining Coachella set for a remix of his smash “Mi Gente” — led the way Saturday with one of the most eye-popping and elaborate sets ever to be immortalized on festival’s stage. (The set will be re-airing on the Coachella YouTube channel on Sunday until the live broadcast begins at around 6pm ET.)

Created in collaboration with the arts collective FriendsWithYou, the stage was like a giant playpen, built around a statue of FriendsWithYou’s trademark cartoonish, amine-esque figure with a pillow-like body — basically a Michelin man with a cloud for a head. A dozen dancers wearing those outfits — hilariously doing tough-guy moves — accompanied Balvin early in the set, followed by a giant toy horse that a dancer twerked on, a couple dozen fantastic dancers, and a mind-blowing video show on the giant screens alongside and behind the stage to accompany it. And those were just the visuals!

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But just as memorably, the set acted as both an overview of Balvin’s career — including hits like “Reggaeton,” “Safari” and “No es justo” — and an introduction, for the uninitiated, to the musical depth and history of reggaeton and other Latin hits of the past two decades, including many songs that he wasn’t directly involved in.

CREDIT: Amy Harris/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Rosalia — who played a blazing set on Friday night — joined him for their collaboration “Con Altura”; dancehall star Sean Paul jumped onstage for their collaboration up “Contra La Pared.” Balvin also paid tribute to the reggaeton “OGs” by dropping in songs like N.O.R.E. and Daddy Yankee’s 2006 hit “Oye Mi Canto” and Yankee’s 2004 smash “Gasolina.” At various points Nicky Jam’s “X” and Prince Royce’s “Sensualidad” were incorporated into the set, which peaked with a cover of Cardi B’s “I Like It” — while Cardi and Daddy Yankee did not join him onstage, Balvin was accompanied by something that was arguably even more entertaining: dancers wearing hilarious giant caricature heads of the two figures, Cardi’s complete with an extended tongue; Balvin danced with her for part of the song (see fan-shot footage below).

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The set climaxed, of course, with the closing “Mi Gente,” which found Balvin joined onstage by so many surreal dancing figures — a couple of giant mushrooms, a pair of Mickey Mouse-type hands with eyeballs on them, what looked like the Cookie Monster — that at one point he struggled to finish a line because he was laughing. He told the crowd to wave their phones, led them in synchronized jumping, stopped and started and finally, the set roared to a close.

“We’ve been waiting 15 years for this!,” Balvin shouted, and spoke of his pleasure at hearing Spanish sung on the Coachella stage. His set was a monumental achievement — one of the greatest Coachella has ever seen … and yes, that includes Beyonce.

The performance marks Gomez’s first appearance on stage since she sought mental health treatment last year following a few hospital stays. The singer, who has lupus, revealed last year that she’d undergone a kidney transplant as a result of her diagnosis. The appearance is also her first as a performer at the desert festival.

Cardi B posted a photo of the pair along with DJ Snake on her Instagram story, captioning it, “Coachella and I love them.”

Gomez will appear later this year in Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die,” which will open Cannes in May, and is slated to voice a role in Universal’s “The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle” alongside Robert Downey Jr.

The singer announced her kidney transplant last year in an Instagram post.

“I’m very aware some of my fans had noticed I was laying low for part of the summer and questioning why I wasn’t promoting my new music, which I was extremely proud of,” Gomez wrote alongside a photo of herself holding hands with actress Francia Raisa, her friend who donated the kidney. “So I found out I needed to get a kidney transplant due to my lupus and was recovering. It was what I needed to do for my overall health.”

After the release of her debut album “Invasion of Privacy” a year ago, Cardi B’s nominations include Top Artist, Top Female Artist, Top Rap Artist, Top Selling Song and Top Rap Album. She’s credited for three multi-nominated songs, “I Like It,” “Girls Like You” and “Taki Taki.” Drake and Post Malone tie for second-most nominations with 17, Travis Scott follows with 12, the late controversial rapper XXXTentacion nabbed 10 and Ariana Grande took nine.

Kelly Clarkson will host the awards show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.

The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas is holding a festival of sorts for the opening weekend of its new KAOS venue, with Travis Scott, Cardi B, Alicia Keys, J Balvin, Skrillex, G-Eazy and more performing over three nights, April 5-7.

According to the announcement, KAOS is “a spectacular new entertainment experience consisting of a fully integrated 73,000 square foot dayclub and 29,000 square foot nightclub, which will completely redefine the daylife and nightlife experience in Las Vegas.”

The weekend’s entertainment lives up to such a billing: It starts on Friday, April 5, with an intimate performance by Alicia Keys inside the Pearl Concert Theater, followed by electric performances later that night by Skrillex and Travis Scott at KAOS Nightclub. On Saturday, April 6, Cardi B will debut her exclusive residency at KAOS Nightclub and previously announced act Hozier will rock the Pearl the next night.

Cardi B took to Instagram Wednesday night to call out the U.S. government for the shutdown that began Dec. 22. While the Bronx-bred rapper has mostly shied away from politics, she didn’t hold back in the minute-long clip.

“Trump is now ordering federal workers to go back to work without getting paid,” said Cardi, who went on to defend Obama’s shutdown in 2013, noting that it was “for healthcare.” In her signature delivery, she argued, “So your grandma could check her blood pressure and y’all bitches could go check y’all pussy at the gynecologist without no motherf—ing problem. … Our country is in a hellhole right now. All for a f—ing wall. We really need to take this serious.”

“Bitch, I’m scared,” she concluded. “This is crazy and I really feel bad for these people that gotta go to f—ing work to not get motherf—ing paid.”

Cardi B has 39.7 million followers on Instagram. She’s nominated for five Grammy Awards at the upcoming Feb. 10 ceremony including album of the year.

Nicki Minaj has used her Beats 1 Queen Radio show as an audio social media platform to announce the release of her new album, premiere new remixes, and air her feud with fellow rapper Cardi B. On the show’s 10th episode on Monday, Minaj released her new song “Dip” with Tyga, but didn’t miss the opportunity to hit the Bronx rapper with a few more accusations and rebuttals. From the Harper’s Bazaar Gala beatdown, to Minaj’s opinion of the current state of rap, here are seven things we learned on this episode:

Minaj didn’t leak Cardi B’s numberMinaj refuted claims from Cardi B’s sister that Minaj leaked the “I Like It” rapper’s phone number to “manipulate their fans to spread so much negativity and hate.” “And then you have your sister calling me a crackhead and leak numbers?” she said. “You can’t control your sister, but you want me to control millions of fans? I’ve never leaked a number in my life and y’all continue to lie on me to make me look like a bad person.”

Cardi stopped Offset and 21 Savage from working with MinajCardi apparently thought Minaj talked about her on a verse with 21 Savage, which allegedly led to Offset and 21 Savage not appearing on London on da Track’s record with Minaj.

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“I told my engineer I didn’t know anything about her,” Minaj said. “It was clear she wanted to turn them against me and that’s what she did. On Krippy Kush record, she wanted to be on it. It went from 21 Savage to Travis Scott — he wasn’t allowed, because he was on her single. I can say you stopped two bags!”

Minaj’s friend Rah Ali was the one who beat Cardi at the Harper’s Bazaar eventCardi claimed security roughed her up, but the rapper says it was her friend Rah Ali. “Rah really, really beat Cardi’s ass bad. Rah beat you so bad that I was mad at Rah. You went home and told people security hit you, and we let that ride for legal reasons,” Minaj said. “Anybody that wanna pull up the surveillance footage, I will give you $100,000.”

Minaj thinks Cardi is cozying up to female rappers to spite her“You asked me to be on your second single [‘Bartier Cardi’]. And I said no because I felt it was too much because ‘MotorSport’ was about to come out,” Minaj said. “Now you all lovey dovey with them girls, why you not ask Remy and Kim to be on your second single?”

He may be crazy, but “the culture needs” Kanye WestMinaj acknowledged that we all know “Kanye crazy,” but that the new song she’s working on with the divisive rapper will be “dope.” “It’s about body shaming, but it’s done in a very Kanye West way. It’s dope, though. Shout out to Kanye, who’s supported me at the beginning of my career,” Minaj said. “We’re all a work in progress. Some people allow you to see you fall apart in public, Kanye lets us into his world. I’m happy about that. We all love Kanye. The culture needs him. That’s why we’re so into everything he does. It’s just a matter of conversation sometimes. He is who he is. He’s helped so many artists.”

Current rap is a “joke”When Minaj was coming up, rappers like Lil Kim, Eve, and Lauryn Hill “could actually still rap.” But now, “we took rap and made it into a joke,” Minaj said. “If you cute, got a couple Instagram followers, you’re a rapper now, what? It’s not even a passion.” She also claimed that Lil Wayne has had to pass on rappers for his Young Money label who have since made it big, because he valued lyrics and thought “they ain’t sayin’ s—.”

Minaj wants to drop the dramaDespite saying Cardi “planted those seeds for people not to like me” during the episode, Minaj declared that she was done with the drama. “We can just be happy. There’s nothing that really makes me not like you like that, you know what I’m saying? You know the things I spoke to you in the hotel room — we going to keep them between me and you, for now.” But Minaj made it clear that while she forgives, she never forgets. “I hear the shots you taking, but I’m a rapper, remember that,” Minaj said.

Following their Fashion Week fight, which saw Cardi lunging and throwing a shoe at Minaj, the Bronx rapper lashed out at Minaj on Instagram: “I let you sneak diss me, I let you lie on me, I let you attempt to stop my bags, f— up the way I eat.” Minaj quickly turned it around on her Beats 1 show, “Queen Radio,” by leveling accusations against Cardi.

“The only thing on your mind after you [gave birth] was to attack people and to stop their bags. … And you wanna let your publicist write something about stopping bags?” Minaj said. “Real bitches never attack a woman. You’re angry and you’re sad. This is not funny. Get this woman some f—in help. This woman’s at the highest point in her career and she’s throwing shoes?”

Minaj made the line “Nicki Stopped My Bag” into a meme on social media and released a line of backpacks, shirts, and jackets adorned with the same phrase.

UPDATED: Although a falling security fence received the initial blame, a different culprit has been officially identified as the source of the startling sound that created panic at Saturday’s seventh annual Global Citizen Festival in Central Park. The event nearly turned into a catastrophe when attendees, thinking that gunshots were fired at 7:35 p.m., stampeded away from the stage.

Initially, reports indicated a security barrier had toppled, while a producer of the show had it as a fallen bike rack. Sunday afternoon, though, Global Citizen issued a statement blaming the unnerving boom on… a beverage container. “While NYPD originally advised that a fallen security barrier caused the noise, NYPD informed us today that it was the sound of an attendee(s) stepping on and popping a drink bottle(s),” said the statement, attributed to Hugh Evans, the founder of Global Citizen.

Earlier, seven injuries had been reported, but organizers upped that estimate in the statement: “A few dozen people reported injuries and sought treatment for injuries sustained as they were moving away from the area. To those who were injured or frightened by this experience, we sincerely apologize. We recognize how traumatic this was for many of you.”

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In the wake of the mystery sound, New York police raced to the stage and took over the mic, attempting to calm the fleeing concertgoers. “The fence fell,” a female captain stated. “We’ve got to get these barriers open. We’ve got to get these people out. People are getting crushed. Please move backwards!”

Global Citizen veteran Chris Martin of Coldplay tried to help, telling the crowd: “A barrier fell down. There’s no need to rush. Nobody is trying to hurt anybody. You’re all safe. When you guys are all ready, we can watch Janet Jackson.”

At 8:15, about 40 minutes after the commotion and with some of the crowd returning to the area where the fence collapsed, Jackson hit the stage, performing a seamless set of her hit songs from the ’80s and ’90s, including “Rhythm Nation,” “Nasty,” “Miss You Much,” “What Have You Done for Me Lately,” “When I Think of You” and “Control.”

Toward the end of her set, Jackson weighed in on the key issue of the day: women being sexually assaulted by men. “I’m sick, I’m repulsed, I’m infuriated,” she said. “Injustice, bigotry and prejudice has to stop.”

This echoed the opening message from Janelle Monáe, who kicked off the show at 4 p.m. “I dedicate this to Dr. Ford,” she said, referring to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified Thursday at a Senate Justice Committee hearing about being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 1982. “I dedicate this to Anita Hill… Let the vagina have a monologue!”

Following sets by John Legend and Shawn Mendes, Bronx-born rapper Cardi B made a pitch for the 60,000 attendees, mostly in their teens and twenties, to vote. “Last election, everybody took it as a joke — even me, I’m not even going to front,” she admitted. “Because I thought, ‘Man, that person ain’t going to win,’ and look where we at now.”

Cardi B’s kinetic set consisted of snippets of her hits – “Bodak Yellow,” “I Like It,” “She Bad” and “Be Careful.” “We need to tone it down for my health,” she said mid-set. “It’s asthma season. I can’t breathe.”

The overriding Global Citizen concern is to end world poverty by 2030. Many foreign dignitaries and sponsors (Proctor & Gamble, Cisco) pledged money and campaigns to contribute to that effort. Sub-topics throughout the day included stopping ocean pollution created by plastic — one speaker warned of an island made of plastic the size of France — and putting a halt to cash bail.

“The cash bail system violates justice,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared. “If you can’t make bail, you sit in jail.” He called for the closing of New York’s notorious Riker’s Island prison where 70% of the inmates “have not been found guilty. I’ve closed more prisons than any governor in the history of this state. I’m not done yet.”

Due to the fence fall and ensuing pandemonium, the show was extended an extra half hour to allow The Weeknd to finish it up, albeit with a shortened set of his hits – “The Hills,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “Party Monster” and “Secrets.”

“Can we go all night, New York?” the Canadian singer asked rhetorically. But, a few minutes later, he announced, “I have to cut it short.”

It was an anticlimactic ending to an unsettling day.

Sunday’s statement included instructions for recovering lost property, adding, “we regret some attendees were unable to re-enter the Park, and for that we apologize… We regret that this incident married an otherwise impactful event. In the run-up to the Festival, Global Citizens took 2.1 million actions, which resulted in 37 commitments and announcements totaling $7.75 billion, which are set to affect the lives of 254 million people by 2020.”